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POLITICAL ABOLITION EXPOSED 



BY 



James £. qnaw, A. M., Y. D. M. 

AUTHOR OP BIBLE BAPTISM. 



From such turn away. — 2 Tim. 3: 5. 



u> ' Truth is siiupte and uniform, while error may be infinitely _ 

iJ varied. Mg^ 

asjf^ I would not draw the sword in a cause which I would not 

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BENJAMIN. WOOD, PUBLISHER, 

GEIGER & CHRISTIAN, PRINTERS. 

1845. 

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POLITICAL ABOLITION EXPOSED, 



BY 



James E. Q,naAV, A. M., V. ». M. 

AUTHOR OP BIBLE BAPTISM. 
From such turn away. — 2 Tim. 3: 5, 



Truth is simple and uniform, while error may be infinitely 
varied. 

I would not draw the sword in a cause which I would not 
lay down my life to gain. 



DETROIT: 
GEIGER & CHRISTIAN, PRINTERS. 

1845. 



CONTENTS 



Abolitionists described, - » . _ 1 

The Name abolition, - - - - - 2 

History of Abolition. - - ... 3 

Political Abolitionists, - - - - - 4 

Professed and real object of Abolitionists, - - 5 

Main-spring of Abolition, - - - - - 6 

Abolitionists immoral, - - _ - . 7 

Abolitionists not opposed to slavery, - - - 8 

Abolitionists in favor of slavery, - - - 9 

Evils of slavery, - - - - - - 10 



Entered according to Act of Congress in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and forty-five, by Benjamin Wood and James 
E- QuAW, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the 
United States for the District of Michigan. 



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A considerable portion of what is contained in the following lit- 
tle work, was delivered in a Lecture in Wisconsin, Sept. 20, 1844. 
A copy of this Lecture was requested and furnished for publica- 
tion. In this work, several additions are made to what was pre- 
sented in the Lecture. These, it is hoped, will do something to- 
wards drawing aside the veil which hypocrisy has thrown around 
the Political Abolition Wolf. 



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Every moi-al and religious duty is definitely taught in 
some portion of the Scriptures of truth. In this Holy 
book, men are described in all the variety of character in 
which they appear to the Omniscient eye. What course 
ought to be pursued in relation to some persons, is clearly 
taught in this short direction ; " From such turn away.'' 
By this command, persons are taught to disapprove, dis- 
courage and discountenance all such characters as are in- 
cluded in this expression. From those who are described 
in any part of the language used in connection with this 
Divine command, all are directed to ^'turn aicay.^^ By 
taking this course, each individual can practically express 
his abhorrence of their wickedness. The expression, 
^'fro?n such turn away,'' includes certain characters and 
teaches iiianh duty in relation to them. By attending to 
the several particulars by which, in the language preced- 
ing this Divine injunction, moral and religious characters 
are described ; it will not be difficult for reflecting per- 
sons to determine the class of men from whom all are 
bound, by this command, to " turn away." Let us at- 
tend to this injunction. Let us obey this precept. But in 
order to do this understandingly, let us endeavor to as- 
certain 

1. *'i^ro??z" luhat class of persons we are here directed 
to Hum away.'" Divine wisdom, in this same connection, 
teaches who these are. They are expressly said to be 
" boasters," — " truce-breakers," — " false accusers," — 
"traitors," — persons who have only the "form of godli- 
ness," — and "despisersof those that are good."* By 
this language, not a few individuals, in every age of the 
world, are described. To one class of persons among us, 
(if to no more,) this discription will apply with all the 
force of calm, literal reality. To associate with them 
cannot be beneficial. To do so will certainly be perni- 

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cious. " From^^ them therefore and ^^from''^ all "^jmcA/^ 
we are commanded to ^Hurn away.^'' If it should be ask- 
ed; to whom among us does the title of ^'•hoasters^'' spe- 
cially belong? to whom'? why, to those who are in words, 
constantly making a bombastic display of their love of li- 
berty, of their opposition to slavery, of their peculiar re- 
gard for the colored man ; while by their conduct they 
prove to a demonstration that this their language is but 
mere sound. Should any inquire; who are pre-eminent- 
ly the ^'' truce-breakers^^ of our day? The answer, if a 
correct one is given, iTiust be ; those who frequently ex- 
I)ress a wish to sunder the bond which, in the Federal 
Constitution, bind together the several parts of our con- 
federated Union. This is the most important political 
truce ever entered into by man. Those who would vio- 
late it must therefore be superlative " truce-breakers." 
Those who are habitually charging slave-holders and oth- 
ers with crimes of which they are not guilty and which 
they perfectl}' abhor, will yield to none in their claims, to 
the title of ^'■false-accusers.'^ Who can be more super- 
lative '■'■traitors^' to this country and to the cause of true 
civil and religious liberty, than those who express a de- 
sire to sever the cord of affection which binds every true 
American's heart to the Union of all the States in one 
great representative Republic? This confederation was 
formed at the cannon's mouth. It was cemented with the 
Patriot's blood. To prepare for it a thousand hearts 
were cheerfully bared to receive the British dagger. 
They died that those who survived might form this Un- 
ion. The tyrant appeared on their soil. Under his cloak 
he concealed the chains of slavery. In his hand he bore 
the weapon of death. They struck the fetters of bondage 
from his grasp. But this cost them their life. They re- 
ceived the point of his steel in their heart. The survivors 
formed one united government. Who but a "traitor" of 
the vilest kind can wish it dissolved? What class of per- 
sons can more properly be called *' rf/spwers of those 
that are good," than such as contemptuously affirm that 
those who do not and will not fall in with their schemes 
of wickedness, are the friends of slavery or the apologists 
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have a "form of godliness" while they deny its ''power," 
than such as endeavor to carry on a vile system of wick- 
edness under a religious cloak of their own formation? 
But who are or can be guilty of all this? To whom will 
this description apply 1 It is not overdrawn. In the 
Scriptures of truth, perfect wisdom has, in plain, unvar- 
nished language, thus described a certain class of per- 
sons. Their character, their principles and their practi- 
ces are delineated by him who cannot err. Those who 
are accurately acquainted with the passing events of the 
day, can easily perceive that political abolitionists, among 
others, constitute the characters here described. " From 
such''' therefore we are directed to " turn away.^^ 

2. The name Abolitionist may here receive a passing 
notice. The word Abolition signifies the act of abolish- 
ing or destroying. It may be applied to any thing that 
exists. An Abolitionist, therefore, is one who abolishes 
or destroys, or who is endeavoring to abolish or destroy 
any thing, either good or bad. A person who is enga- 
ged in abolishing liberty or slavery, morality or immo- 
rality, Christianity or anti-christianity, the Bible or the 
Koran, civil law or anarchy, or indeed any thing that 
exists, righteous or wicked, holy or unholy, may with 
propriety be called an Abolitionist. This is a designa- 
tion which can mean any thing that may best suit the de- 
signs of him who applies it to himself The Abolition- 
ist has a descriptive name which will answer his turn, in 
all places, at all times, and under all circumstances. 
Among the opposers of slavery, he may, by his title, pro- 
fess to desire the abolition of this evil. Among its advo- 
cates, he may, by the same title, express a wish to abol- 
ish opposition to slavery. Among Mahometans, he might 
advocate the abolition of Christianity ; and among chris- 
tians, the abolition of Mahometanism, or Paganism. 
Those who adopt such a name must do so for some pur- 
pose. The honest man adopts a name by which he may 
be known. The honest party assumes a distinguishing 
title by which their peculiarities may easily be discoverd. 
But, for a class of men to call themselves Abolitionists, is 
to assume a name which can, with equal ease, be applied 
to those who are engaged in the destruction of libertv or 
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'^ slavery, sin or holiness, wisdom or folly. An honest man 
or an honest party would not be very anxious to adopt 
such an appellation. Indeed, for a person to give him- 
self such a name, is to stamp the mark of hypocrisy in 
glowing capitals on his own forehead. The party who 
wear it, proclaim their own duplicity. 

This class of persons, at their first organization, enti- 
tled themselves Anti-slavery men. They however soon 
discovered that few persons of ordinary reflection could 
be induced to believe that a considerable part of their 
system had any thing to do with opposition to slavery. 
When they made this discovery, they adopted the name 
of Abolitionists. As soon as the wolf became thorough- 
ly detected under that name, they called themselves Lib- 
erty men. It is manifest therefore that they changed 
their peculiar designation to suit circumstances. " Fro7n 
such"" characters as voluntarily call themselves Abolition- 
ists and change their name as the winds of popular favor 
may happen to blow ; it is every honest man's duty to 
" turn aivay.^' 

3. The history of political Abolition deserves a little 
attention. Abolitionists form a heterogeneous party. This 
originated a few years ago in New York and Massachu- 
setts. At first, they denominated themselves Anti-slave- 
ry men. Under this name, they formed societies in dif- 
ferent parts of the non-slaveholding States. Soon after 
their organization, and while wearing this their first 
name, they commenced a furious attack upon almost ev- 
ery thing which men deem sacred. Infidelity has never, 
in any guise, made more bitter and unprincipled onsets 
against the word of God, than have these characters while 
they styled themselves Anti-slavery men. They, for 
years, employed all their influence and art and in- 
trigue to make persons believe that those portions of scrip- 
ture which pointedly condemn their notions, were not 
correctly translated. But this old, stale, worn out scheme 
of cloaked infidelity, did not well serve their turn. Peo- 
ple, in general, could not be made to believe that they 
were suitable judges in the case. Scarcely one of them 
knew a single letter of the Hebrew or Greek alphabet. 
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thoroughly qualified to correct a translation of the scrip- 
tures made by some of the most wise, most pious, most 
learned among uninspired men. When this hackneyed 
scheme of buskined ignorance did network to their mind; 
they then fairly laid off their infidel cloak. They even 
called a portion of God's own holy v/ord* " bald non- 
sense. ''-I- Infidelity cannot exceed this expression in un- 
principled bitterness. Of perfect wisdi.m nothing worse 
can be said than to call it " bald nonsense !'' iJut after 
using this expression which might have made 'IMiomas 
Paine blush, and even while they were using it, many of 
them had the unparalleled impudence to call themselves 
christians. AVith this worst kind of open infidelity, in- 
scribed on their foreheads ; they ventured, before the 
sun, to profess the sacred, the blessed name of Christ. 
Moreover, with all the virulence of demons incarnate, not 
a few of them opposed the christian Sabbath, the chris- 
tian ministry, the christian ordinances, the subjection of 
citizens to the laws of their countr}', of children to their 
parents, of pupils to their teachers, &c. They impu- 
dently asserted that the authority which sustained these 
and similar wholesome regulations, was slavery in some 
of its parts or kinds. Thus under the name of Anti-sla- 
very men, they made a most desperate attack upon al- 
most every thing which human beings are accustomed 
to revere. But the more observing portion of their lead- 
ers soon discovered that the good common sense of Amer- 
icans would not sustain such a mixture of nonsense and 
wickedness. Men could not be induced to believe that 
subjection to proper civil, parental and ecclesiastical au- 
thority, was slavery. They could not discover that op- 
position to these, at the North, had any tendency to free 
the slave at the South. As soon as several of their lead- 
ers discovered that the intrigue of this part of their plan 
was, or in a short time certainly would be, detected ; they 
modified their scheme and changed their name. They 
then denominated themselves Abolitionists. When they 
gave themselves this designation ; they had a name un- 
der the cover of which any vile character on earth may 
carry on his trade of wickedness. Its ample canopy can 
*1 Tim. 6: 2. tSee Anti-Slavery Record. 



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shelter all who wish to abolish any thing whatever. It 
may however at the same time, teach an important truth. 
It declares in no very obscure language, to every one 
who will hear, that the leaders who, for the party, choose 
such a name, are any thing but honest men. " From 
sucW^ persons, '■'■from such'''' a party, every upright man 
ought therefore to " turn aicay.'^ 

4. Abolitionists are uwprinci'pled politicians. Till 
some time in the year 1839 or 1840, these characters de- 
nied most strenuously that they had any design of form- 
ing a political party. They often and positively asserted 
that their object was moral and religious, not political. 
They frequently declared, in the most pointed terms, that 
they had no intention of forming a political party. They 
then fiercely charged with the sin of slander, such as had 
sufficient penetration to discover, and sufficient firmness 
to assert, that they had laid a plan, which when carried 
out, would end in the formation of such a party. Before 
the year thirty-nine or forty, they employed all their pros- 
elytizing art and influence to induce the moral and reli- 
gious portions of the other parties to join them. For years, 
their leaders continued to pursue this course. All this 
time, they habitually asserted that they had no design of 
forming a political party. But when the scheme of the 
political Abolition leaders was thoroughly matured ; they 
then laid aside this part of their hypocritical veil. They 
then openly appeared as a political party. That they 
carefully concealed, for a time, the political part of their 
plan, is certain. To do this, they were often guilty of 
uttering the most unblushing falsehoods. In doing this, 
they had an object in view. What this was, can be dis- 
covered. In this way they hoped to deceive the moral 
and religious portions of both the great political parties 
in our country. Men, in general, have some regard for 
consistency. Political Abolition leaders are aware of 
this. They knew that persons, after being entangled in 
their net, might, for the sake of consistency, remain with 
them. Among their followers, they might calculate on 
a considerable number of this description of character. 
These would not have joined them as a political party. 
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sert them after they laid off their cloak of deception and 
became politicians. If such persons, after their leaders 
appeared as politicians, manifested any disposition to for- 
sake their political standard; they might still hope, by 
additional duplicity, to induce them to remain in their 
leading-strings. Of one thing, in relation to this matter, 
they were certain. If men already formed a portion of 
their fraternity ; they knew that it would be much more 
easy to retain them, than it would be to induce them to 
unite with them as a political party. This, from their 
actions, was manifestly the scheme of many political Ab- 
olition leaders. But whether this or some worse motive 
actuated them ; it is certain that they continued to deny 
that they had any design of forming a political party, till 
their scheme was digested, and their plan quite well ma- 
tured. Then, before the Presidential election in 1840, 
or perhaps in the year 1839, they came out before the 
world as a political party. They then pretended that 
slavery must be abolished at the ballot-box. But when, 
in the different States, the time arrived for the choice of 
Presidential electors ; lo ! large numbers of the most noi- 
sy political Abolitionists sustained a slave-holder for the 
office of Vice President in the United States ! ! As soon, 
however, as this election in 1840, was over ; political 
Abolitionists again began to sound their noisy trumpet. But 
strange to tell! at the Presidential election in 1844, not 
a few of the most noisy political Abolitionists sustained a 
slave-holder for President. Thus, by their actions, not 
a few of the leading " boasters" among political Aboli- 
tionists, show that they are not even honest in politics. 
Bad as the intriguing partizans in other parties usually 
are ; they are generally, honest in their politics. They 
will usually adhere to their party right or wrong. But 
many political Abolitionists are not even honest in poli- 
tics. They are so grossly inconsistent and regardless of 
common veracity, as to sustain slave-holders for civil 
office. Indeed, some of their leaders will sell their votes 
to the party which will pay them best. It is manifest 
therefore, that not a [e\v of the leaders and others in this 
noisy party, are unprincipled politicians. No wonder 
then, that the inspired word should say to us of these Abo- 



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litionists and of all like them ; " From such turn away.^^ 
5. The j^rofessed, is not the real object of 'political AhO' 
litionists. It is no new thing for men to give a system 
of wickedness a wrong name. To " call evil good and 
good evil/' to " put darkness for light and light for dark- 
ness,''* is an old, well-proved and very successful scheme 
of his Satanic majesty. But when deceivers call things 
by wrong names, there is always a plan by which they 
may be detected. " Ye shall know them by their fruits,"t 
not by their profession, is the language of Divine wisdom. 
By this test, it can easily be ascertained that the profes- 
sed, is not the real object of political Abolitionists. They 
jyrofess to he opposed to slavery. This their profession is 
often long and loud. But that all this is mere noise, is 
undeniably certain from their actions. That many of the 
leaders in the ranks of political Abolition, are entirely 
hypocritical in this their profession, is proved from a va- 
riety of circumstances. (!•) It is worthy of remark, that, 
however loud and boisterous they are in those portions of 
our country where slavery does not exist ; in those pla- 
ces where it does, they are generally if not universally 
silent. This one fact shows most conclusively that their 
anti-slavery professions are hypocritical. (2.) Political 
Abolitionists operate only in the free or non-slaveholding 
States. To form a political party to free slaves in those 
States where slavery does not now exist and probably ne- 
ver will, is a movement which very closely borders on the 
ridiculous. It is very much like fishing for oysters in a 
snow-bank. (3.) Their plan when carried out, cannot 
free one slave. They professedly operate only in the 
non-slaveholding States. If their plan should be carried 
to the utmost conceivable extend ; they could only induce 
every man, woman and child in the free states, to become 
noisy political Abolitionists. To do this could not free 
a slave in those States where there are no slaves to set at 
liberty. If, however, all persons in the non-slaveholding 
States, should become political Abolitionists; their lead- 
ers would then fill all the offices in those state govern- 
ments. But the Legislature of one State cannot make 
laws for another. Nor can it repeal any law which an- 
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other has made. If therefore every governor, every le- 
gislator and every other civil officer in each of the non- 
slave-holding States, was a political Abolitionist of the 
most noisy kind, they could not singly or all united, free 
one slave in any State of the Union. But it may be said, 
that if all persons in the free States should become poli- 
tical Abolitionists, they would then send men to Congress 
who were professedly opposed to slavery. That is just 
what they certainly would do. It is just what they now 
do. It is precisely what they have done for many years. 
Indeed, every free State in which slavery once existed, 
first became opposed to the system. It then put an end 
to the evil within its own jurisdiction. Always after- 
wards, as a body politic, it has stood before the world free 
from the demoralising influence of slavery. Those States 
which have never doomed a human being to hereditary 
bondage, have always borne witness to the Universe that 
they are opposed to this evil. The free citizens of each 
of these States, elect Congressmen who belong to a body 
politic which permits no citizen to hold a slave within its 
geographical limits. In those States where slavery has 
been discontinued or where it has not been permitted to 
exist; it is not known that any petition has ever been pre- 
sented to any one of their legislative bodies, the design 
of which was to secure the revival or establishment of 
slavery. Besides, it is not known that any legislator, in 
any one free State, has once attempted to revive or estab- 
lish slavery within its jurisdiction. This important fact 
shows that the free citizens of the free States do not de- 
sire to become slave-holders. They might, if they chose, 
become such. But they do not. It is therefore manifest 
that the free States are opposed to slavery. They have 
rejected this evil. They have no disposition to receive it 
within their bounds. From the preceding facts, it is also 
manifest that representatives in Congress from the free 
States are not in favor of slavery. Indeed, they must, in 
profession at least, be opposed to it. If, however, all the 
members of Congress from the free States, were the most 
noisy among political Abolitionists, they, (were they even 
so disposed,) could not free a single slave. Nor could 
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of their party. The constitution of the United States 
would not then permit them so to act on the subject of 
slavery as to free one slave. Even then they could not 
so alter this constitution as to give Congress power over 
the subject of slavery. So great a majority of the States 
as is necessary to alter this instrument would still be 
wanting. If then every member of Congress from all 
the free States, was a political Abolitionist and (which is 
not asupposable case,) was an honest politician ; not one 
slave could be freed by any law which they could make. 
Besides, the power over slavery is of too great impor- 
tance to be given to Congress. If it was in the hand of 
that body of men, they might compel citizens of the free 
States to hold slaves. The true patriot will not readily 
consent to intrust a power of such magnitude as is that 
over slavery, with any class of men so far removed, both 
as to location and power, from the scrutiny of their con- 
stituents, as members of Congress, in general, must be. 
Moreover, if all the non-slaveholding representatives in 
Congress were political Abolitionists ; they could not then 
even free a slave in the District of Columbia. In this 
District often miles square, Congress has power over the 
subject of slavery. But this body cannot so exercise its 
power, as to free a slave. If a majority of Congress were 
even honest political Abolitionists, they could not pass a 
law which would free one slave in the District of Colum- 
bia. Every slave could and would be removed from the 
District before it would be possible to pass any such law 
through both houses of Congress. Besides, it may be ob- 
served that Congress cannot free a slave in any one of 
the Territories belonging to the United States. The Ter- 
ritories make and repeal their own laws. Congress can 
veto or nullify a Territorial law before a certain speci- 
fied day after it is passed. If Congress says nothing, the 
law takes effect. This is the case with all Territorial 
laws, except such as relate to raonied institutions. To 
make such banking laws valid in a Territory, Congress 
must pass an act approving them. But Congress cannot 
make any law for a Territory ; nor can that body repeal 
or nullify a Territorial law which has gone into effect 
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vetoed. But wherever slavery exists in a Territory, a 
law on that subject has actually taken effect. Slavery is 
a thing of law. Where it is not established by law ; there 
it does not, cannot exist. Since then Congress cannot 
repeal or nullify any law which is in actual operation in 
any Territory ; that body cannot render inoperative those 
laws which, in a portion of the Territories, have estab- 
lished slavery. It may also be remarked here, that Con- 
gress cannot constitutionally refuse to admit a new State 
into the Union, because it does, or may sanction slavery. 
The Constitution of the United States points out what the 
terms are, upon which new States may be admitted into 
the confederation. To be non-slaveholding is no part of 
the conditions of their admission. Besides, any State may, 
entirely independent of any law which Congress has or 
can pass, so modify its constitution and laws as to become 
a slave-holding sovereignty. Congress cannot prevent 
any State, new or old, from holding slaves. Nor can that 
body, in the exercise of its legitimate power, say that a 
State shall not liberate its slaves. To free those in bon- 
dage, requires the action of slave-holding States. No oth- 
er earthly power can properly reach the case of the Amer- 
ican slave. Moreover, it is by no means certain that Con- 
gress has power to prevent the transfer of persons or pro- 
perty from one State to another. Congress can consti- 
tutionally regulate trade and commerce between the dif- 
ferent States of the Union. It may well be doubted how- 
ever, whether the power to regulate commerce, certainly 
includes the right to lay a duty. But it is manifest that this 
expression in the constitution cannot mean to include the 
power of preventing persons and property from passing 
from one State to another. But if it did ; and if Congress 
should pass an act forbidding citizens of different parts of 
the Union to traffic in slaves, such a law could not free a 
slave. The bondman would then remain a slave in his 
native State. To suppose that colored persons cannot be 
raised where white men can live, is preposterous. If men 
will keep slaves at the Southern extremity of the Union, 
they can easily raise them there. If they cannot obtain 
them farther North, they certainly can raise them if they 
choose. To prevent the citizens of different States from 
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trafficing in slaves, could not free a slave. To do so could 
not even diminish the number of those who are held in 
bondage. 

It is evident therefore to those who will examine this sub- 
ject, that men i7i or from the free States, cannot repeal 
those lavv's which, in parts of the Union, countenance or 
have established slavery. It is also manifest to them that 
Congress cannot free a single slave. The plan then of 
political Abolitionists, when carried to any supposable ex- 
tent, cannot free one slave. Those who adopt such a 
scheme, must certainly know, that by it, slaves cannot 
possibly be delivered from bondage. (4.) These politi- 
cal Abolitionists often proclaim their own hypocrisy. 
When they are asked ; why, if they really wish to free 
the slaves, they do not go where slavery exists ; they 
usually reply that they are afraid. This their answer 
proves that their professions on this subject are hypocrit- 
ical. They profess to believe that it is their duty to op- 
pose slavery. With this profession on their lips, they de- 
clare that they are afraid to go where the evil exists. 
Afraid ! ! Afraid of what ? Afraid of going where slave- 
ry exists ! and yet pretend that it is their duty to oppose 
slavery by forming a political party ! ! Afraid to do what 
they profess to believe is their duty ! ! And yet they con- 
tinue to spend their time in talk on this subject, where 
they apprehend no danger. When the frighted fancies 
of these timid souls, can discover no mcoinonic bugbear 
to excite their fears, then they utter a torrent of words. 
Then their tempestuous voice is heard in every corner. 
Then they stamp and rage and foam and boast like a bar- 
room warrior. They make all this noise where nothing 
is or can be done to remove the evil which they profess 
to believe it is their duty to oppose. But where this evil 
exists, they are, on this subject, silent as a mouse in th© 
wall. It is certain that when such men profess to be op- 
posed to slavery, they proclaim their own hypocrisy. 
They exhibit much more than the wolf's ears. It ought 
to be observed also that every professed minister of the 
gospel among such characters, is doubly guilty. Besides 
the guilt which rests upon him in common with other lea- 
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VOW. By this he is most solemnly bound to " teach all 
things" which Christ has commanded in his word.* When 
he spends his time in lecturing on any one subject, or 
against any one sin, however flagrant may be its odious- 
ness ; he is habitually turning aside from the perform- 
ance of those duties in the discharge of which he has sol- 
emnly vowed to spend his life. Such a man has a fear- 
ful account to settle with the King of Zion. But all lec- 
turers on political Abolition, who, from fear, refuse to go 
where slavery exists, practically, as well as by their de- 
clarations, acknowledge that their anti-slavery preten- 
sions are all hypocritical. Men of principle go where 
real or supposed duty may call. They are seldom afraid 
where there is no danger. But they do not avoid the 
path of duty because it is or may be that of danger. (5.) 
Political Abolitionists refuse to give any thing to redeem 
the slave. Not one of them is known to have g'iven a sin- 
gle dollar to deliver any slave from bondage. Those who 
will not give a dollar to redeem a slave from servitude, 
must be the vilest of hypocrites when they profess to de- 
sire his freedom. A man might have a brother in Alge- 
rine bondage. The lash of Turkish cruelty might lacer- 
ate his flesh. His brother might have his pockets filled 
with gold. He might then refuse or neglect to give one 
dollar to redeem him from bondage. But all could see 
through the thin veil of his deception, should he talk long 
and loud of his wish to deliver him from the cruel slave- 
ry of his Algerine task-master. The political Abolition- 
ist who refuses to use a dollar to redeem a slave from 
bondage, is no less hypocritical. (6.) Political Abolition 
leaders sometimes endeavor to persuade men to refrain 
from exposing their duplicity and intrigue. Fraud al- 
ways shuns the light. Those who endeavor to conceal 
the hand while they strike the blow, are always dishon- 
est. By such a course of conduct, leading Abolitionists 
prove, most conclusively, that their anti-slavery preten- 
sions are all hypocritical. These several particulars 
clearly exhibit their hypocrisy, so far at least as they pre- 
tend to be opposed to slavery. They often profess to be- 
lieve that colored persons ought to sustain a political and 
*Mat. 28: 19, 20. 



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social equality with the whites. Their conduct proves 
this their profession to be hypocritical. A few facts will 
sustain this position. (1.) The leading political Aboli- 
tion leaders seldom or never marry colored females. — 
They do not often select colored partners for their chil- 
dren. This fact proves that, whatever they majf say to 
the contrary, they do not really hold to the social equali- 
ty of colored and white persons. If they did, they would 
marry colored pei-sons as readily as they would whites. 
(2.) Few of the political Abolition leaders, especially in 
cities, will allow the free white females who do their 
kitchen-work to enjoy common domestic equality with 
them. They will not sit at the same table with their hi- 
red help. Sometimes they will not even allow them to 
kneel at their family altar before Him in whose presence 
kings of the earth are but worms. How absurd for such 
persons tapretend to be in favor of social equality! ! — 
(3.) These same Abolition leaders, seldom invite either 
colored persons or their own hired help, to their social 
parties. Thus they prove by their actions that they do 
not believe what they say when they assert that colored 
persons ought to sustain a social equality with the whites. 
(4.) They do not generally, on public occasions, sit or 
walk, or associate with colored persons as they do with 
whites. (.5.) Those among them whose sense of smell is 
tolerably acute, would find it no very pleasant task to as- 
sociate very intimately, in warm weather, with a large, 
fleshy, colored person. By such an attempt, they might 
easily learn that it is not altogether prejudice which pre- 
vents respectable whites from receiving the colored race 
into a social equality with themselves. (6.) Most Abo- 
litionists do not wish colored persons to enjoy even a po- 
litical equality with the whites. They prove this by their 
conduct. They unite with the British in their Abolition 
movements. It is a well known fact that the English na- 
tion does not even pretend that all ivhite men should enjoy 
political equality. This nation also rejects the idea of so- 
cial equality among free white persons. Those therefore 
who unite with British subjects in their Abolition move- 
ments, may wish to destroy political or social equality 
among the whites. But it is certain that they are very 



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far from desiring to raise all these to an equality in the 
political and social relations of life. For those who now 
degrade, and always, so far as they could, have degraded 
to a very lovv^degree of political inferiority, the poor 
white man, to pretend to be anxious to raise the colored 
man to a political equality with themselves, might almost 
make the ebony blush. By carefully observing the move- 
ments of political Abolitionists, it becomes undeniably cer- 
tain, that the professed, is not ihe real object of many of 
them. These few remarks will enable us to detect the 
Abolition wolf. " From sucJi'^ characters, all upright 
men, all honest opposers of slavery, ought to ^Hurn azaay.'''' 
The real principles of political Abolitionists can be dis- 
covered by their actions. Men^s true 'principles govern 
their conduct. By '' their fruits," therefore, they can be 
known. 'J'he actions of men declare what they are. By 
observing with care the course of conduct which they pur- 
sue ; their ultimate aim may be ascertained. When per- 
sons act, they have an object in view. This, the honest 
do not attempt to conceal. They do not endeavor to hide 
the end at which they aim, nor the means by which they 
would accomplish their purpose. To attempt to do either 
of these, is a sure mark of dishonesty. That the profes 
sed, is not the real object, of political Abolitionists, is cer- 
tainly known from their actions. From the same evidence, 
their real object may be learned. That at which they aim 
is manifold. (1.) Some of their leaders prove by their 
actions that they desire to make political Abolition a hob- 
by on which to ride into office. (2.) Most of the leaders, 
and many others among Abolitionists, wish to divide the 
Union. To accomplish this object, they are endeavoring 
to excite the free, against the slave-holding States. The 
people in the free States are opposed to slavery. Aboli^ 
tionists know this fact. They use it to excite the people 
and especially females, in the North, against those of the 
South. To accomplish this, their main design, they car- 
icature the treatment of the slave, and misrepresent the 
character of the slave-holder. By adopting this course, 
they hope to enrage the South. They desire also, to ex-- 
cite the prejudice nnd other base passions of the North. 
They endeavor to call these into exercise against the 
2* 



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slave-holder, not against slavery. In this way they are 
laboring to produce a real or virtual dissolution of the 
Union. In this attempt, they are evidently aiming to 
promote the designs of Eastern Despots. No true Amer- 
ican, none but the worst kind of instruments used by ty- 
rants, can desire a separation of the Union into two or 
more distinct confederacies. No patriot can attempt its 
virtual dissolution. If the Union should be actually dis- 
solved, then Eastern kings might endeavor to subdue one 
portion of it at a time. Thus the whole might soon be 
conquered. Should a virtual dissolution of tiie Union take 
place; then, if the South should be invaded by a foreign 
foe ; the North, in all its firmness and power, would not 
assist to expel the enemy from slave-holding soil : and if 
the North was invaded, then the South, in all its keen- 
eyed, chivalrous honor, would not be the first to meet the 
foe on a Northern shore, and the last to retreat. Should 
our Union be virtually dissolved ; then that nation which, 
in the pride of its power, with its legions of armed assas- 
sins and its thousand ships of war, has twice attempted to 
enslave the free sons of America, might hope to reduce 
them again to the situation of colonies. If that favorite 
scheme of despotic power could be accomplished, then its 
haughty tyranny, bedecked with liberty's plume, might 
trample upon them with all its giant influence. No true 
American does now or ever will desire a dissolution of the 
Union. A friend of liberty might wish the Constitution 
amended or altered. But the heart-strings of every one 
in whose veins the blood of a patriot flow^s, twine around 
the confederation of all the States in one glorious political 
Union. Any man who, for any cause, v/ould dissolve 
the Union, is a traitor to this country, is an enemy to civil 
liberty, is an Arnold* among the sons of those whose 
breast was their country's bulwark in the day that "tried 
men's souls." At a political party which dares to whisper 
that the dissolution of the Union may be the result of its 
success, the finder of scorn ought to be pointed by every 
man who loves his country next to his God. That polit- 
ical Abolitionists aim at dissolving the Union, their own 

'Benedict Arnold was the traitor who, during the Revolutionary 
war, sold West Point. 



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actions, as well as words, abundantly prove. But to dis- 
solve the Union cannot free a slave. This could have no 
such tendency. (3.) These characters wish to promote 
infidelity in some one or more of its thousand varied forms. 
This is proved by the assertions of many of their leaders 
and by their publications. At the commencement of their 
Aboliiion career, infidel it}^, in all its brazen impudence, 
frequently stood forth in the forefront of their publica- 
tions. It then spiced their ahnost every lecture. After- 
wards, it is true, they became more cautious in this as 
well as in several other parts of their scheme. It is man- 
ifest from these few remarks that the principles which 
govern the conduct of political Abolitionists, are exceed- 
ingly pernicious. Their course of conduct is. evil, "only 
evil, and that continually.'^ ^'- From sucW double-deal- 
ers, all truly upright men ought to " turn away.^'' 
- 6. The main-spring of jiolitical Abolition is foreign 
gold. Much of this is furnished by Great Britain. A por- 
tion of it may be furnished by Rome, or by other Euro- 
pean powers. The gold of Eastern despots moves the ma- 
chiner}^ of political Abolition in this country. By care- 
fully tracing the visible effects in the actions of leading 
Abolitionists to the unseen cause, it will become very 
manifest that foreign gold is the main-spring of this their 
political movement in America. While Gre; t Britain 
herself held more than ten millions of slaves; she, by 
some of her subjects, sent George Thompson to Boston, 
to lecture the people of Massachusetts on the subject of 
slavery. Massachusetts, since she threw off the yoke of 
British oppression, has not held a slave. For Britain, 
while holding millions of slaves in her Asiatic and Afri- 
can possessions, to send one of her subjects professedly to 
instruct Massachusetts on the subject of slavery, is a per- 
fect burlesque. The citizens of that State, in their free 
political capacity, never held a slave. Such a step taken 
by Great Britain, ought to excite the laughter, or more 
than the suspicion, of every true-hearted American. But 
this same tyrannic nation says nothing effectively to her 
slave-holding and slave-importing allies and neighbors in 
Europe and Asia. These, her actions, prove conclusive- 
ly, that it is not hatred to slavery, but opposition to free- 



20 THE WOLF DETECTED. 

dom, which induces her to send her agents to the free 
States of the North, to talk on the subject of slavery at 
the South. She has once and again attempted by force, 
on their own soil, to enslave the sons of freedom. In this 
she totally failed. But what she despairs of accomplish- 
ing by force, she is now and has long been attempting by 
strategem. By means of her emissaries in this assylum 
of the oppressed, in this home of the free, she is endeavor- 
ing to divide our Union. She wishes to set the North and 
South so at variance, that when she attacks one part of 
our country, the other will not step forth to the rescue. 
To accomplish this object, she pulls the political wires. 
Her leading iibolition puppets then dance to the tune of 
gold and silver. Thus, while she professes to have very 
great regard for freedom, she is using a powerful but un- 
der-handed influence to overthrow the fundamental prin- 
ciples of civil liberty in this home of the exile. That tho 
grand aim of Britain is, not to free the slave, but to en- 
slave the free, is also manifest from the fact that when 
she sends her armies to China, her object is, not to give 
freedom to that semi-barbarous people, but to compel them 
to buy and chew her opium. Moreover, intelligent Amer- 
icans have already learned what real regard Great Bri- 
tain has for this, our beloved country. They know how 
highly she esteems true liberty, that most precious boon 
which the King of the Universe has conferred upon our 
land. But if any have yet to learn how much Britain 
loves liberty ; let them ask the patriot-soldier of former 
days. Let them ask that hero who, at Princeton, bared 
his bosom to the shafts of death. There, from his unshod 
feet, the blood freely flowed. There it stamed the frozen 
earth, and dyed with crimson hue the winter snow, while 
he faced the bleak Northern blast. He knows how much 
the British love liberty, and he can tell. He stood forth 
in the darkest hour of free America's history to repel the 
foreign foe* whom British gold had tempted to pollute, 
with his unhallowed touch, the pure soil of freedom. If 
any have yet to ascertain how much Britain desires to 
promote true liberty ; let them ask him whose blood stood 
*The Hessians. 



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in pools at Monmouth, where Major Molly* fought du- 
ring the same day of doubtful contest. He can tell ; for 
he knows by experience. Or they may ask that brave 
man who followed the victorious banner of the "Blind 
eyed Tailor,"t on the plains of Stillwater. He too has 
learned by experience how much that proud, despotic, in- 
triguing nation desires to promote the freedom of the hu- 
man race. Or they might enquire of the son of that Green 
Mountain Boyi: who fought nnd bled and died at Benning- 
ton, rather than permit Great Britain to rivet the chains 
of slavery upon his own heel, and upon that of unborn 
millions. There the mighty Stark, with undaunted spirit, 
led forth the body-guard of freedom. Belore the British 
myrmidons commenced their work of death, he dared to 
say ; "there are the enemy, and here are we, and if we 
don't beat them Molly Stark sleeps a widow to-night. "§ 
He, at Bennington, with the sons of liberty, resisted and 
conquered the tools of despotic power. Jf any have tho 
least desire to know more of Great Britain's love of lib- 
erty, let them inquire of him who formed a portion of the 
eleven hundred New York and Vermont militia, who, 
with a few regulars, put to flight, at Plattsburgh, fourteen 

*Tlie battle at Monmouth in New Jersey, was fought on a very warm day in 
gnmmer. A IMr. Pitcher was in this action. He assisled to man one of the can- 
nons. His wife was on the jrround. She came to supply with water the compa- 
ny of which her husband formed a pirt. The patriot-soldier who exerted his eve- 
ry nerveamid the sweat and dust aiid heat and "confused noise" and blood of this 
battle-field, needed water to quench hi*; thirst. 'J'his engagement was fie ce and 
blojdy. J?oon after it commenced, Mr. Pitcher was killed. When this brave man 
fell, the commander of the gnn exclaimed; "What shall I do! 1 have not a man 
to tnke his place! !" Mr. Pitcher's wife, whose name was Molly, heard this ex- 
clamation. She instantly set down her water-pail. With it she laid aside for a 
time her female timidity. She stepped forward to the spot where d<'ath arrayed 
in blood had just left her children fatherless, and supplied her husband's |ilace du- 
ring the remainder of the action. The soldiers of liberty, with such an example 
before them, fought with desperation. The British hired assnssins gave way. 
Victory was inscribed on the banner of freedom. As the shout of triumph passed 
along the American line, it was mingled with that of unending glory to "Major 
Molly." Those who fought for liberty or death, had, on the field of carnage and 
to them of undying honor, given to Mrs. I'itcher the title of "Major Molly." 1 his 
she retained till her death. When General Washington heard the facts in the 
case, he gave her, it is said, a Lieutenant's commission. Congress also, it is as- 
serted gave her a pension for life. But the soldiers still persisted in calling her 
"Major Mollv." In this they were right. She richly deserved this title. 

fGeneral Gates who commanded the American forces at Stillwater was blind 
of an eye. He was a tailor by traile. Lord John Burgoyne who commanded the 
British troops at the same engagement, gave him this title before the battle com- 
menced. 

fThe name, "Green ^Tountain Boys," is and has long been given to the Revo- 
lutionary soldiers who resided on and near these mountains. They were always 
among the bravest of the brave: among the mightiest of nature's noblemen. 

^General Stark whose wife's name" was Molly, commanded the Green Moun- 
tain Boys at the battle of Beanington, 



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thousand of the best British troops.* They might also 
gain some knowledge on this subject from him who, on 
Lake Champlain, saw the British flag lowered to a boy- 
commanded gun-boat. f There Britain with all her pow- 
er was striving to enclave tlie free. Something too, on 
this important point, might be learned from liim who saw 
the cool, undaunted Perry, amid a shower of British iron 
balls, deliberately use his coat to plug up the hole made 
in his boat by British cannon-shot. J These all can tell, 
for they have all learned how much the British love lib- 
erty. For that nation, or for those who still adhere to her 
interests, to pretend to love freedom, is tiie most egregi- 
ous trifling. Those who have once and again attempted 
to rivet the fetters of bondage on the free white man of 
America, ought to be " laughed — to scorn," when they, 
without correcting one of their national sins, pretend to 
be very anxious to unshackle the Southern slave. Those 
who use all their power to make slaves, cannot be in fa- 
vor of emancipation. Great Britain, with all her profes- 
sions of love for freedom, sends none of her agents to de- 
liver from bondage any of the millions of slaves held on 
the Eastern continent. The nations that hold multitudes 
of these slaves, are her neighbors and allies. If she desi- 
red universal emancipation, she might find something to 
do in freeing the slaves held in Europe, Asia and Africa. 
She might even find some work of this kind in the West 
Indies and in South America. But she passes by all these 
portions of the earth, and fixes the eye of her pretended 
philanthropy upon the United States. For a part of our 
population, she professes great regard. But wiiile car- 
rying out these her professions of friendship, the wolfs 
ears become too manifest to escape notice. Her attempts 
to dissolve the Union by her Abolition agents, are quite 
too evident to deceive many true-hearted Americans. Her 

*Mo!-t of these had been engaged in the European wars. It is said Ih^t most 
ef them were among the conqnerers of Boneparte. t'n the nava! engagement 
on Lake (Jhamplain, one of the British vessels was compelled f o strike her colors 
to an American Gun-Boat. Tliis Boat was commani'ed by a midshipman about 
eixteen or seventeen years of age. Jin the battle on Lake Erie, Perry com- 
manded the American squ.i(tro/i. His flag ship was disabled during tlie action. 
He left her in an open boat for another vessel. While passing to the other ship, 
n cannon-shot from the enemy stnuk the boat. It was, consequently, in danger 
of sinking. But Perry was at no loss even in this extremity. He used his coat, 
for want of better material, to plug up the hole tl^us made in his frail bark. 



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whole course of policy proves that she does not desire tho 
extension of true civil or religious liberty. Her conduct, 
for centuries, proves that she would enslave the world if 
ehe had the power. No breeze from the British Isles car- 
ries one accent of freedom to her own Asiatic and Afri- 
can slaves. The sound of "liberty to the captive," mingles 
not with the heart-sickening notes of their clanking chains. 
But a heartless, hopeless, never-ending bondage is theirs. 
Indeed, her own starving population, with all their cries 
of agonizing distress, cannot draw forth from that hard- 
hearted, blood-thirsty nation, so much as one kind look, 
one compassionate smile, one sympathetic word. But, 
with the scorpion whip of oppression in her hand, its stinga 
all stiff with human gore ; she pretends to be compassion- 
ate ; she pretends to love liberty ; she, with her Abolition 
lecturers in America, professes to desire the emancipation 
of Southern slaves ! ! It is perfectly certain therefore, from 
the conduct of Great Britain, that she has no wish to free 
the slave. It is also equally certain, from the same evi- 
dence, that she would, if she could, enslave the free. That 
numbers of the leading Abolitionists in America, are un- 
der British influence, is proved by the general tenor of 
their conduct ; by their opposition to our government ; 
by their attempts to dissolve the Union, and from the fact 
that they unite in these courses of wickedness with pub- 
licly acknowledged British emissaries, such as George 
Thompson and others. Men seldom or never sell them- 
selves for nothing to promote the ambitious designs of the 
foreign, hereditary foe of their country. Every argument 
therefore which proves that political Abolitionists are for- 
warding the designs of Great Britain or of any other Eas- 
tern power, against the United States, proves that foreign 
gold is the main-spring of their movements. The conduct 
of many leading Abolitionists, shows conclusively that 
British gold has no small share in urging forward their 
movements. Others among them may be influenced by 
the purse or by the spiritual despotism of Rome. It is even 
possible that some of their leaders may labor among them 
merely for the spoils of political office. But the main- 
spring which puts in motion the whole machinery of po- 
litical Abolition, is evidently foreign gold. 



24 THE WOLF DETECTED. 

What are called " Peace Societies," are also infider in 
their spirit and anti-patriotic in their aims. They hold up 
the idea that, under any circumstances, war is anti-chris- 
tian. In this their fundamental principle, they are oppo- 
sed to Divine revelation. God, in His word, frequently 
requires His people to engage in war.* Those Societies 
therefore that reject all defensive war as sinful, reject 
what God requires. They must, for that very reason, be 
infidel in their spirit. In their aims, they are anti-patri- 
otic. Every man who joins one of them takes away part 
of the support which his country may need in the hour of 
danger. He promises every foe, non-resistance. He thus 
encourages, by the hope of an easy, bloodless victory, all 
the unprincipled enemies of his country, of man, of liber- 
ty, to pursue their deeds of blood.' He thus invites them 
to strike their surest, hardest, most fatal blow. Every 
member of such an association thus strengthens the hands 
of any foreign assassins who may invade our shores. 
Such societies, also, by withholding that det'ense which 
might repel the aggressions of an enemy, weaken the de- 
fense of our land. That is not christian faith, but infidel 
presumption, w^hich leads men when attacked as a nation, 
to leave unused the means for self-defense that God has 
appointed, and the use of which he has sanctioned. These 
self-styled "Peace Societies" in our land, are formed un- 
der British influence. In England, or in any of its depen- 
dencies, they are not encouraged. They all have a ten- 
dency to make our land an easy prey to any foreign foe. 
It is no': love for America, or for peace, which prompts 
men to form such societies. They do not advance the in- 
terests of our country. They do not promote peace. They 
do not diminish the prospects of war. These Societies ac- 
tually increase the danger of warlike attacks from belli- 
gerant nations. They do this by diminishing the power 
which ought to resist any foreign invader. They weaken 
the body politic in which they are formed. Moreover, it 
ought to be remembered, that while peace is valuable, 
justice is more so. That peace, and that only,, which is 

*See Ex. 17: 8-13, Deut. 20: 1-4, 10-13, 16, 17, Josh. 8: 1-29, 
and 10: 8-11, and 11: 6-9, 1 Sam. 15: 1-5, Ps. 18: 34, and 144: 1, 
Prov. 20: 18, &c. 



ABOLITION UNVEILED. 25 

consistent with justice, ought to be desired or sought, or 
accepted by any nation. The proper way to obtain such 
a peace as this, is always to do justice to others and to 
ourselves. To secure this last, we must require justice 
from others, and be prepared to enforce the demand. — 
Without this, no proper, permanent peace can exist. 
Without it, the name of peace is but mere delusion. It is 
nothing but ashes on a volcano. To be at peace with in- 
justice, is to be at war with what is " holy, just and good." 
That peace therefore" which may be offered to us in ex- 
change for justice, ought to be spurned by exevy honest 
man, by Q\e\-y friend of his country, by every true chris- 
tian. While Great Britain carries on the most unprinci- 
pled wars wherever the love of power may hope for suc- 
cess ; she greatly desires that " Peace Societies" ma}' be 
formed in the United States. But the patriotic eye of 
Americans can see through the thin veil of British in- 
trigue. By whomsoever her plans maybe carried on, her 
duplicity cannot escape detection. ^'' From^^ all '■'^ such^^ 
cloaked enemies of our country, every true patriotic Amer- 
ican is prepared to " turn away.,''^ with a mingled emotion 
of disgust, contempt and pity. 

7. The principal leaders among political Abolitionists 
are immoral. Facts abundantly prove this position. They 
slander slave-holders. Every man who has spent any 
length of time at the South, knows this to be a fact. In- 
deed, any person who will reflect but a moment on the 
subject, must be convinced that many assertions made 
concerning slave-holders by political Abolitionists, are 
mere slanderous falsehoods. They often assert that slaves 
at the South are not properly fed or clothed, or attended 
when sick. They also frequently affirm that the slaves 
are over-worked, abused, maimed, &c., by the master or 
by his overseer. Now, by a little reflection, any one can 
see that, if the master iiad no more compassion or fellow- 
feeling for his slave than a man has for his horse, all such 
statements must be false. If persons view a slave as mere 
animal property, they would of course then treat him as 
they would a horse. But men in general do not half-starve, 
over-work, abuse and maim their horses. Instead of this, 
they usually feed them well, take good care of them, ara 
3 



26 THE WOLF DETECTED. 

careful not to over-work them, endeavor to cure them 
when sick, &c. If a horse will command, in market, from 
five hundred to a thousand dollars, the owner is sure to 
take special care of him. This is about the usual price 
of a good slave. If therefore the master had no more re- 
gard for his slave than for his horse, he would feed him 
well, clothe him comfortably, not over-work him, and 
would take pains to cure him when diseased. He would 
not then designedly maim his slave any more than a man 
would his horse. Nor would he suffer others to do his 
slave a personal injury if he could prevent them. The 
assertions then of this kind which political Abolitionists 
often make concerning slave-holders in general, are man- 
ifestly nothing but slanderous falsehoods. Some among 
political Abolitionists, advocate lyings pe7'ju)'y, stealing, 
servile rehellion, and even murder. They frequently as- 
sert that jurors, judges, and other officers who have sworn 
to execute the laws of the land, ought to, or at least may, 
in the case of fugitive slaves, violate their oath of office. 
Thus they encourage direct perjury. They themselves, 
when elected to any office, do not hesitate to take the of- 
ficial oath. They will take this oath, when they know 
that it requires them to do what they themselves profes- 
sedlj^ oppose. They thus swear to do what they declare 
they will not do. All this is manifest from their own re- 
peated declarations. In their ordinary business transac- 
tions with men, their dishonesty is easily detected. Those 
of us who have had any dealings with many leading po- 
litical Abolitionists, know full well, in our own experi- 
ence, that they can lie, deceive and practice fraud. More- 
over, one of their leaders,* with a party of men, actually 
committed murder. A mob threatened to destro)^ this lead- 
er's printing press. He and a number of others, went 
armed to defend his property from the threatened at- 
tack. The unprincipled mob, with deadly weapons, deter- 
mined to destroy this property. He and his party, with 
the same kind of weapons, entered the building where this 
press was. The mob advanced with desperate temerity. 
This leader and his party fired on the mob and killed one 
of them. One of the mob fired on his party and killed 
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him. Thus, both these parties, were guilty of committing 
murder. This mob, with every individual connected with 
it, was engaged in a wicked, lawless act, in attempting to 
destroy the printing press of this Abolitionist. But their 
crime did not deserve the punishment of death. Besides, 
if death had been the proper punishment for the crime of 
destroying, or of threatening to destroy, a printing press, 
this Abolitionist was not the person legally appointed to 
inflict the punishment. He, therefore, and his party, as 
well as the mob who killed him, were murderers. More 
•than a majority of the principal persons among political 
Abolitionists, have made themselves accomplices in the 
murder committed by this leader and his party. They 
have publicly justified this crime. They have even rep- 
resented the principal in this murder as being a martyr 
in the cause of liberty. Those who like many political 
Abolition leaders, are guilty of lying, slandering, iJerjury^ 
frauds and of advocating and justifying servile rebellion 
and murder, arc certainly very immoral characters. Those 
who are openly guilty of such crimes cannot really desire 
to promote the true happiness of their fellow-creatures. 
Those who will slander and abuse, and defraud and mur- 
der free white men at the North, can have no sincere 
wish to promote the true interest of the colored slave at 
the South. Those who are dishonest in one thing, are not 
to be trusted in another. This is, or ought to be, a fun- 
damental principle in morals. Those therefore, who are 
sincerely opposed to slavery, ought to avoid forming any 
connection with political Abolitionists. Those among 
them, if any there be, who do not mean to sustain their 
system of wickedness, ought at once to shake off all con- 
nection with '■' such^^ a party. '''• From''^ this party, and 
'''- froni'^ any other whose leaders are thus grossly immo- 
ral, every upright man ought to " turn aioay,^^ as he 
would from a serpent whose sting is fatal poison ; whose 
bite is certain death. 

';Z 8. The 'principal leaders among political Aholitionists, 
are not opposed to slavery. Their habitual course of con- 
duct clearly proves this position. New School Presbyte- 
rians, or those in communion with them, are their prin- 
cipal leaders. The New School, or Pelagian General As- 



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sembly, nt its first meeting after the division oi^ tlie origi- 
nal Assembly of the Presbyterian church, had the power 
of putting an end to slavery within its own ecclesiastical 
bounds. Tiiis power it did not use for that purpose. In- 
stead of using its ecclesiastical j)ower to terminate slavery 
within its own ecclesinstical iurisdiction, the New School 
or Pelagian Assembly actually laid down this its power, 
and resolved itself into a mere advisory body. As the 
highest judicatory of the New School church, this body 
had the power to say that no slave-holder should be either 
a minister or member within its bounds. The leading 
persons in the New School church and those in commu- 
nion with them, had been, for years, calling slave-hold- 
ers, thieves, robbers, murderers, &c. They might have 
kept out of their church those whom they charge with 
such crimes. But they did not. While they were saying 
all manner of evil against slavery ; they actually receiv- 
ed it into their church. They rolled it as a sweet morsel 
"under their tongue.'^ In language, they call the slave- 
holder a demon incarnate ; in actions, they embrace him 
as a Pelagian brother. In words, they call him a devil ; 
in actions, they give him the standing of a saint. When, 
by the highest judicatory of their church, they had pub- 
licly embraced the slave-holder as a " brother beloved,'^ 
as a minister of the everlasting gospel ; men might then 
have supposed that they would have ceased to call him a- 
thief, a robber, and a murderer. But after receiving him 
as a member of their church, as an ambassador for Christ, 
and while they actually remain either directly or indirect- 
ly in communion with him ; they are so openly unprin- 
cipled and inconsistent as to call slavery a sin, a great 
sin, the crying sin of our land, the master sin of the 
world. While pressing the slave-holder with their eccle- 
siastical arms to their bosom as a dear christian brother, 
they still call him a thief, a robber, a murderer. They 
had, and might still have, the power to put an end to sla- 
very within their own ecclesiastical jurisdiction. They 
did not do so. They have not yet resumed, and they do 
not now resume that power, by the exercise of which they 
might terminate this evil within the limits of their own 
church. If men do not, and will not discontinue slavery 



ABOLITION UNVEILED. 29 

when and where they can ; it is perfectly certain that 
their professed opposition to it is mere hypocrisy. That 
the New School Presbyterians thus act, is a publicly 
known fact. All who hold communion with them, encour- 
age them in this course of conduct. They might have 
ended slavery in their own church ; but they did not. 
They may now take up that ecclesiastical power which 
they laid down. By the exercise of this, they may now 
exclude slavery from their own brotherhood. But this 
they will not do. They live on in communion with slave- 
holders. Most of the political Abolition leaders are uni- 
ted, either directly or indirectly, in religious fellowship 
with the New School church. This body did not, and does 
not terminate slavery when and where it might and can. 
No honest op poser of slavery can remain in connection 
with a church which receives and retains slavery within 
its bounds. The New School or Pelagian General Assem- 
bly, by doing so, practically declare that slavery is no 
sin. They receive and retain in their church, as mem- 
bers, a^ ministers^ those who are publicly known to be 
slave-holders. No moral person who is willing to hold 
christian and ecclesiastical communion with such a body 
of men, can honestly believe that slavery is a gross im- 
morality. Those who sit down at the communion table 
with openly immoral characters, by that act, publicly de- 
clare them to be moral men. They do more than this. 
They thus pronounce them to be true christians. Such 
immoral characters are in this way, encouraged in their 
wickedness. Those who call slave-holders thieves, rob- 
bers, murderers, debauchees, &c., and then commune at 
the sacramental table with them, are guilty of encoura- 
ging them in these crimes. They are therefore accom- 
plices (as they thus practically declare,) in all the guilt 
which they charge upon slave-holders. This is certain, 
if their assertions in relation to their slave-holding mem- 
bers and ministers, are true. If they are not true, then 
those who make or repeat them with approbation, are 
guilty of foul falsehood and slander. But it is absolutely 
certain that those who are, either directly or indirectly, 
connected with the New School Presbyterian church, (as 
is the case with most of the political Abolition leaders,) 
3* 



30 THE WOLF DETECTED. 

are not opposed to slavery. They did not and would not 
and do not put an end to it within their own ecclesiastical 
jurisdiction. Those who are really opposed to slavery will 
terminate the evil when and where they can. JMost of 
the leaders among political Abolitionists will not do this. 
They cannot then be, in reality, opposed to slavery. 
Moreover, they often fiercely oppose colonization move- 
ments. If a colored person wishes to go to Africa, no one 
ought to attempt to prevent him. It ought also to be re- 
membered that there is no benevolence in furnishing him 
the means of settlmg in that quarter of the world. If a 
white man wishes to remove to any part of the globe ; his 
own industry must furnish him with the means. If the 
colored man desires to settle in Africa ; his own labor, 
not the earnings of others, ought to furnish him the means 
of doing so. Some men will free their slaves on condition 
that they will settle in Africa. The real opposer of slave- 
ry would rather see a colored person free in Africa ihan 
a slave in America. Those who would not, cannot be, 
in fact, opposed to slavery. This is the case with many 
political Abolitionists. The}^ cannot therefore be truly- 
opposed to this evil. All these facts show that most polit- 
ical Abolitionists are not opposed to slavery. Their ac- 
tions, in a voice of thunder, declare this. When their 
tongues speak the contrary ; reflecting men who under- 
stand their system, cannot believe their assertions. Their 
actions on this subject, regularly contradict most-of their 
declarations. " JProm" those therefore, who practice 
" 5wc/i" duplicity, all the real honest opposers of slavery 
ought to '■'• turn away." 

9. Most of the leaders among political Abolitionists 
are in favor of slavery. The very spirit of their system 
is that of slavery. They frequently and openly declare 
that they intend, by the force of public opinion, to com- 
pel slave-holders to free their slaves. They do nothing 
which either directly or indirectly, has any tendency to 
free a single slave. They often assert that they would 
be glad to see the slave-holder occupying the place of the 
slave. Those who would be pleased to see the free white 
man enslaved, are certainly in favor of slavery. Those 
who do nothing that can possibly free a slave, may be in 



ABOLITION UNVEILED. 81 

favor of this evil. Those who publicly advocate the plan 
of forcing men to act according to their schemes, are cer- 
tainl}^ in lavoi' of the spirit of slavery. These three points 
therefore taken together, prove most conclusively, that 
many of the leading Abolitionists are in favor of slave- 
ry. They endeavor to coinjiel men to act according to 
their system. Such compulsion is the very spirit of sla- 
very. To compel men to act by the force of public opin- 
ion, or by the lash of a cruel task-master, is alike the spi- 
rit of slavery. Those who use the one force or the other, 
to compel men to net, practically sustain this evil. Free 
men are governed by good laws or by reason upon which 
such laws are founded. They suffer no other power to 
influence their actions. To compel men to act by any 
other force is to practice a slave-holding spirit. This is 
the spirit by which political Abolitionists are actuated. 
Their leaders repeatedly declare that they intend to force 
slave holders, by the influence of public opinion, to free 
their slaves. They thus openly announce themselves to 
be the advocates of the very spirit and soul of slavery. 
But such men are very short-sighted in making such an 
attempt. Do they really suppose that they can accom- 
plish such a base design 1 Do they really imagine that 
the South is to be forced by public opinion, or by any' 
other improper influence ? To harbor such a conjecture, 
they must have taken a wonderful flight on imagination's 
trembling wing. Political Abolitionists may be afraid 
v.'here there is no danger. But Southern men are not. 
They have too often stood before the cannon's mouth, for 
any intelligent person to believe that they are afraid of 
danger. They will cheerfully do what is right. But they 
must be satisfied that it is so. They, however, are not to 
be forced. Public opinion cannot, no improper influence 
can, force them to act. Their own Washington, no, 
America's Washington, the world's hero, showed to the 
nations of the earth that Southern men are not to be forc- 
ed by public opinion. In the darkest hour of our nation's 
first conflict with her old, British, hereditary, Abolition 
foe, Washington, with his little band of patriots,* was 

*The name of every Revolutionary soldier ought to be written in 
letters of gold and placed in the Capitol at Washington. 



82 THE WOLF DETECTED. 

compelled to retreat from New York to New Jersey, and 
then to cross the Delaware into Pennsylvania. During 
this disastrous hour, the tide of public opmion rolled in 
with tremendous fury against our own Southern Wash- 
ington. But it could not force him to lay down his sword. 
Jt could not compel him to give the enemy an opportuni- 
ty to massacre his little patriotic band. Southern men 
are not to be forced by public opinion, or by British gold, 
or by a foreign sword, to do what they are not convinced 
is right. Tills is a delightful thought to every true Amer- 
ican. If public opinion could force either Northern or 
Southern men; then all that any set of unprincipled dem- 
agogues would have to do in order to accomplish any ob- 
ject, however vile, would be to put public opinion in mo- 
tion. But me?i, real men, both at the North and South, 
have a different rule by which to govern their conduct. 
Public opinion is n(»t their master. They are as unwil- 
ling to be the slaves of this as of any other despot. Least 
of all, will honest and intelligent men be the slaves of 
that public opinion which is raised and directed and gov- 
erned by political Abolitionists. To attempt to force men 
by public opinion, is to practice the spirit of slavery. Its 
very soul is force, is compulsion. Most of the leading po- 
litical Abolitionists are professedly attempting to force 
men, by public opinion, to free their sla\es. They are, 
therefore, according to their own professed principles, en- 
deavoring to disseminate the very spirit of slavery. Their 
system is building up all the abominations of this dread- 
ful evil. The movements of these hypocritical advocates 
of slavery, greatly inci'ease the bondman's oppression. 
They diminish in an untold degree, his prospects of 
emancipation. By their unhallowed duplicity, his bond- 
age has become almost hopeless. They disseminate, they 
advocate, they greatly increase the evils of this pernicious 
system, " Fronv^ those who thus advocate the soul, the 
spirit, the very essence of slavery, every honest man, ev- 
ery one of its real, honest opposers, ought to '' turn 
away.''^ 

10. Slavery is an evil. Slave-holders know this fact. 
No class of persons c;in be more certain of it than they. 
Many of them will acknowledge that slavery is an evil. 



ABOLITION UNVEILED, 33 

They can easily see that it is an exceeding!}^ pernicious 
system. Not a few of them are aware that it is nn evil 
to the master, an evil to his children, an evil to the 
slave, a political evil, a pecuniary evil, an intellec- 
tual evil, a moral evil, a religious evil. The wisest 
and best statesmen of the South, of theworld, have de- 
clared that slavery is a most pernicious gangrene ad- 
hering to the body politic. They have asserted, be- 
fore the nations of the earth, that slavery is an evil. 
This system in our land is a relic of foreign oppression. 
Great Britain forced slavery upon the South. And now, 
while she carries the chains of slavery under her hy ]iocri- 
tical cloak, watching for an opportunity to rivet them on 
the free white man's heel; she professes to mourn over the 
existence of this relic of her own despotic influence. The 
South has not yet wiped away the stain of slavery which 
British t3-ranny has stamped upon the fair face of its es- 
cutcheon. This sin originated in British oppression. 
When the States were colonies under the yoke of Great 
Britain; she then forced some of those at the South to re- 
ceive her cargoes of slaves. With her therefore origina- 
ted the sin of slavery in the United States. It is also a 
State sin, so far as any State sustains it by law. Moreo- 
ver, it is the personal sin of each individual who sustains 
the system or spirit of slavery. Its withering curse re"Sts 
on some of the States of our Union. Its spot pollutes not 
a few persons at the South. Its foulest, vilest stain ad- 
heres to political Abolitionists at the North. They aro 
spreading the spirit, the very demon of sla.very, over the 
free States of our Union. Slavery, however, in this coun- 
try, is not a national sin. Congress was not, in the for- 
mation of our government, invested with power over the 
subject of slavery. When the District of Columbia was, 
by Maryland and Virginia, ceded to the nation, slavery 
existed in botli its parts. Congress has not repealed those 
lavvs which, in this District, sanction slavery; because by 
doing so, they could not free one slave. We iiave seen 
that men in or from the free States, cannot abolish slave- 
ry in any portion of our country. But slave-holding 
States and Southern men can and will entirely wipe the 
foul blot of slavery from the fair banner of liberty. This 



34 THE WOLF DETECTED. 

has and long will wave over the free sons of the South, 
They will free their slaves. They certainly will, not- 
withstanding all the hypocritical opposition which poli- 
tical Abolitionists have thrown in their way. They love 
liberty too well to allow this foul relic of despotism to 
leave an eternal stain upon their name. They will not 
allow it to entail an endless curse on their posterity. The 
love of liberty will not permit slavery to till forever the 
soil of freedom. The birth place of liberty, the land in 
which its infancy was cradled, its youth nurtured and its 
manhood strengthened, cannot be the unending supporter 
of slavery. The South can and will terminate this evil. 
It ought to be said, and it will soon be said, that slaves 
cannot breathe at the South. When a human being 
touches the land which gave Washington birth, his shack- 
les, wherever forged and by whomsoever riveted, ought to 
fall from his heeX Whoever breathes the atmosphere of 
a Southern man, ought to ^breathe the air of freedom. 
The South can and will free her own slaves. But to do 
this she will not be forced by public opinion. The love 
of freed^n will induce her to perform this glorious work. 
Before the influence of this principle, the Southern man 
bows with reverence. But he is not the slave of public 
opinion. Those who fancy him to be such know little 
or 'nothing of his character. Those who imagine that 
persons at the South can be compelled to act by the force 
of public opinion, have yet to learn what influences gov- 
ern real men. When political Abolitionists are advocat- 
ing compulsion by that or by any other improper force ; 
they are disseminating the very spirit of slaver}^ They 
are thus fostering the demon of oppression. They are 
forging new chains for the captive. They are adding to 
his heart-sickening oppression. They have already so 
increased the spirit of slavery that the colored man's bond- 
age has become almost hopeless. They have greatly in- 
creased the sufferings of the slave. "jPro7?z" them there- 
fore every friend of liberty ought to ^Hurn away.'^ 

To show the proper manner of freeing the slaves at 
the South, is no part of the subject now under discussion. 
The difliculty of escaping from this evil may not be so 
great as Southern men usually suppose. What political 



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Abolitionists are, has been shown. The political Aboli- 
tion Wolf has been detected. The duty of every honest 
person in relation to such men, has been definitely stated. 
It has been clearly proved. Nothing farther, therefore, 
in the subject before us, remains to be investigated. Hav- 
ing then, from Divine revelation, learned^ let us now do 
our duty. In relation to them, and to all similar charac- 
ters, we may easily know how to act. Our duty is be- 
fore us. To avoid the hypocrite, the deceiver and the 
double-tongued, is the duty, as well as the interest of ev- 
ery honest man. " Froni'^ these seven-sided political 
Abolitionists therefore, and '•'-from''^ all like them, let us 
'-Hum aioay.^'' 

May the King of the Universe, by the regenerating 
power of His Spirit, bring hypocritical political Aboli- 
tionists to true repentance. 



INDEX 



Abolition, history of, 

its main-spring, 

leaders of, immoral, 

in favor of slavery, 
not opposed to slavery, 

origin of this name, 

preachers, 
Abolitionists described, 

not honest in politics, 

their professed object, 
and 

their real object, 
British gold, 
Major Molly, note. 
Monmouth, battle of. 
Peace Societies, 
Slavery, evils of, 



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